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| Tunng – Bullets Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't know - why can't it be the obvious? It seems to me to be directly about combat, especially trench warfare. I just finished reading this book called birdsong, so maybe I'm projecting, but the overall atmosphere is a thin layer of joy underpinned by a very bitter melancholy. It seems to be the only way you could survive such a horrible experience. Splitting the secret up six ways is about running forward with your friends into the line of fire. At least one of you will take a hit, but its a diversion so the others could advance. Cutting your fingers off was also a practice in WWI to get out of combat. Just a thought... |
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| Under The Influence Of Giants – In the Clouds Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Yup, just watched the video. It's definitely about having unprotected sex and not worrying about it. The video starts out with a shaking dinning room with the traditional leave it to beaver family while someone's definitely gettin it on hardcore upstairs. There's all these spilt red wine images and even an identical twin shot (the worst thing one would imagine in an unwanted pregnancy). But the bands message becomes loud and clear, blowing a hole in the dinning room and the members leave the black/white world of simple right and wrong to enter the full-color world of having sex with hundreds of beautiful girls. Don't take it personal and in the clouds I think refer to indiscriminate sex and taking a wider view of sex as a human need rather than a deeply personal experience. Just have sex and let the morning after pill wash your troubles away. |
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| Under The Influence Of Giants – In the Clouds Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It think it is more about abortion as a form of birth control. On the one hand - morning after pill, bullet in the water (unprotected sex), don't you like control, can't hide (as in, can't hide the belly) and you gave us no choice all seem to suggest that this dude just wants to be free to have unprotected sex and worry about the consequences later. Politically, that even seems to be his philosophy when he goes on about voice and telling the people. On the other hand, I can't get away from the idea that he wants to have so much sex it kills both of them and "in the clouds" they'll still keep at it. Either way, it's deeply disturbed, which is why I like it so much. Anyone else? |
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